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Ecoscapes

Author : Gary Backhaus
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114506
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Ecoscapes written by Gary Backhaus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume's concept, 'ecoscape, ' has been formed for the purpose of comprehending the spatial configuration (geography) of an ecosystem. Using this method, the contributors place emphasis not on things, but on the spatial patternings of relations and interrelations. Through the related notion of economy, conceptualized as the management of the ecoscape, contributors investigate ethical problems and value choices in light of the way that we are contextualized in the world. By envisioning specific environments as spatial processes of events composed of interrelated patternings, the co-editors intend to provide a fresh approach for framing the problems that beset our world

Evolving Ecoscape

Author : Rachel Dayton Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Evolving Ecoscape written by Rachel Dayton Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropical Phyconomy Coalition Development

Author : Alan T. Critchley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031478061
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Phyconomy Coalition Development written by Alan T. Critchley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

Author : Stuart K. Allison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136466363
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change written by Stuart K. Allison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state, what is the appropriate outcome? With climate change now threatening greater disruption to the stability of ecosystems, how should restoration ecologists respond? Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change addresses and challenges some of these issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology. It analyzes the paradox arising from the desire to produce ecological restorations that fit within an historical ecological context, produce positive environmental benefits and also result in landscapes with social meaning. Traditionally restorationists often felt that by producing restorations that matched historic ecosystems they were following nature's plans and human agency played only a small part in restoration. But the author shows that in reality the process of restoration has always been defined by human choices. He examines the development of restoration practice, especially in North America, Europe and Australia, in order to describe different models of restoration with respect to balancing ecological benefit and cultural value. He develops ways to balance more actively these differing areas of concern while planning restorations. The book debates in detail how coming global climate change and the development of novel ecosystems will force us to ask new questions about what we mean by good ecological restoration. When the environment is constantly shifting, restoration to maintain biodiversity, local species, and ecosystem functions becomes even more challenging. It is likely that in the future ecological restoration will become a never-ending, continuously evolving process.

Kiowa Ethnogeography

Author : William C. Meadows
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778449
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Kiowa Ethnogeography written by William C. Meadows and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the place names, geographical knowledge, and cultural associations of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded sources to the present, Kiowa Ethnogeography is the most in-depth study of its kind in the realm of Plains Indian tribal analysis. Linking geography to political and social changes, William Meadows applies a chronological approach that demonstrates a cultural evolution within the Kiowa community. Preserved in both linguistic and cartographic forms, the concepts of place, homeland, intertribal sharing of land, religious practice, and other aspects of Kiowa life are clarified in detail. Native religious relationships to land (termed "geosacred" by the author) are carefully documented as well. Meadows also provides analysis of the only known extant Kiowa map of Black Goose, its unique pictographic place labels, and its relationship to reservation-era land policies. Additional coverage of rivers, lakes, and military forts makes this a remarkably comprehensive and illuminating guide.

Rule of Law for Nature

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107513219
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Rule of Law for Nature written by Christina Voigt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.

Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology

Author : Almo Farina
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030966119
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology written by Almo Farina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third, thoroughly updated edition of a well received book, presents the most complete collection of theories, paradigms and methods utilized by the landscape sciences. With the introduction of new ecosemiotic concepts and innovative managing procedures, it offers a broad list of ecological, ecosemiotical and cultural tools to investigate, interpret and manage the environmental complexity according to a species-specific individual-based approach. Readers will discover the importance of a landscape perspective to create strategic bridges between science and humanities favored by the holistic sight of sensorial (visual, acoustic, olfactory, tactile, and thermal) “scapes”. Distributed in 10 chapters, the content covers many aspects of the landscape sciences ranging from the description of fundamental theories, principles and models originated by ecological approaches like source-sink models, island biogeography, hierarchical theory and scale. The ecosemiotical approaches like the eco-field model, the ecoscape paradigm, and the general theory of resources are widely described and discussed. A cultural approach to landscape is utilized to focus on the heritage values of territories and their environmental identity. This book, written in an accessible and didactic style, is particularly dedicated to undergraduate and graduate students but also scholars in ecology, agroforestry, urban planning, nature design, conservation and remediation. Land practitioners, farmers and policymakers can use this book as an authoritative guide to better understand the function and role of environmental systems according to a social-economic integrated perspective.

Ecocriticism in Japan

Author : Hisaaki Wake
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149852785X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism in Japan written by Hisaaki Wake and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, “What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?” Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, Ōe, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

Working & Walking Vol1 Colour

Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 190409841X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Working & Walking Vol1 Colour written by Ian D. Rotherham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West's Federal Supplement

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1838 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book West's Federal Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology

Author : M.P. Weinstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306475340
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology written by M.P. Weinstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844957
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.

Nature Across Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401701490
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nature Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Ecosemiotic Landscape

Author : Almo Farina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108874525
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Ecosemiotic Landscape written by Almo Farina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive.

"Attached Files"

Author : Imre Lázár
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878820
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book "Attached Files" written by Imre Lázár and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Attached Files"" is a selection of lectures and papers written by Imre Lázár, a medical anthropologist with twenty-five years of experience, situated at the crossroads and frontiers of several disciplines, including anthropology, health sciences, religious studies, human ecology, and environmental ethics. The shared focus, connecting these borderlands into a common semantic network, is the problem of the synergic logic of human bonds and attachment embodied by somatic, social, institutional a...

Zion Canyon

Author : Greer K. Chesher
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816524877
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Zion Canyon written by Greer K. Chesher and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A park ranger and resident of the region takes readers on a comprehensive and in-depth tour of Utah's Zion National Park.

Temporal Cross Currents

Author : Garrison Clifford Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300178949
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Temporal Cross Currents written by Garrison Clifford Gibson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Martian philosopher, Patrick Voevoda, encounters evil embodied in aliens and humans alike. An event horizon of concentrated wickedness overcomes good sense in political-economic leaders stimulating their will to power to reach for absolute power with bitter ends. The recurrent cycle of human and alien behavior is morphed by evolution in a variety of forms across Universe (1). Voevoda and friends search for deeper meaning in truth directed evolution spiritually, Jesus Christ and God overcoming the chaos of conflict and philosophical enigmas of quantum physical cosmology.